Are stockmarkets warning of a depression?

Correctly forecasting the moment the bull-market turned was no lucky guess, says John C Burford. The signs were in the charts all along.

Two days before the stockmarket made its all-time top in the Dow at 17,365 on 19 September, I wrote: "This is an important week in the markets, make no mistake. As we approach the end of September traditionally one of the weakest months for stock markets there are several events that are potentially market-changing."

Is this the start of a major collapse or a buying opportunity?

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.